It was certainly a good idea, but also always a suspect of
malfunctions and as such, almost never used. Newer code
organisation moves most of the code behind it to dda_clock()
anyways, so it also became mostly obsolete.
Rest In Peace, STEP_INTERRUPT_INTERRUPTIBLE, you were matter
of quite a number of interesting discussions and investigations.
Changes for Configtool by jbernardis <jeff.bernardis@gmail.com>
Eventual debugging LEDs aren't part of the CPU, but part of the
electronics. Accordingly, define it in config.*.h, not in
arduino_*.h (which would be better named something like
"atmega_*.h).
This meant to be a firmware-provided retract feature but was
never really supported by G-code generators. Without their support
(by issueing M101/M103), it's pretty hard to detect extrusion
pauses, so this feature simply has no future.
As this was on by default, it saves over 200 bytes binary size
in a default configuration.
The requirement was simply neither obvious nor intuitive. Drawback
is, the indices of temperature sensors can now differ from these
of the heaters. That's easier to recognize for newbies, though.
Now we don't have tables for default or gen7 electronics, but
two default tables for a single vs. two different thermistors.
This seems to be more logical.
This is a intrusive patch and for now, it's done for the X axis only.
To make comparison with the former approach easier ...
The advantages of this change:
- Converting from mm to steps in gcode_parse.c and back in dda.c
wastes cycles and accuracy.
- In dda.c, UM_PER_STEP simply goes away, so distance calculations
work now with STEPS_PER_MM > 500 just fine. 1/16 microstepping
on threaded rods (Z axis) becomes possible.
- Distance calculations (feedrate, acceleration, ...) become much
simpler.
- A wide range of STEPS_PER_M can now be handled at reasonable
(4 decimal digit) accuracy with a simple macro. Formerly,
we were limited to 500 steps/mm, now we can do 4'096 steps/mm
and could easily raise this another digit.
Disadvantages:
- STEPS_PER_MM is gone in config.h, using STEPS_PER_M is required,
because the preprocessor refuses to compare numbers with decimal
points in them.
- The DDA has to store the position in steps anyways to avoid
rounding errors.
This is confusing for newbies when their host of choice tries
to move into negative space.
You know ...
"Just installed Teacup and it's trash, because motors don't move!"
This is useful when operation a milling spindle. In this case,
set the spindle speed with M104 Sxxx, where xxx is 1..255.
M104 S0 turns the spindle off.
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